Human Rights and Context of Their Application

Philosophy and Culture 36 (7):59-71 (2009)
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Special universal values ​​of human rights practices, human rights issues is the core of modern society. Diversity of family characteristics with human rights values. Human rights values ​​of the application process, is a concrete understanding of the specific interpretation in practice, in practice the specific understanding of the process of interpretation; Bank in knowledge, of knowing one line Zhongzhi process; is an abstract principle to activation, and thus can be understanding, can be interpreted, can practice. For the general principles of human rights recognize the value of spirit is willing, and can not eliminate the practice of endless disagreement and controversy. The main reason is: the specific content of the human rights situation in the difference, and difference in human rights issues such as further understanding of the formation, interpretation, practice differences. The practice of human rights values ​​is not a simple mechanical operation of the menu, but a life of wisdom. Actors not only have to believe in human rights values ​​and conscience, but also moral ability: the ability to understand the special situation and seize the specific values ​​of universal human rights, understanding and grasp of the special situation, and in this particular situation the special action capacity. The particular application of the universal values ​​of human rights, is the core problem on human rights in modern society. The concept of human rights is a living and growing value with its own regulations. The kindred diversities of the value of human rights determine its own internal contradictions. The application of human rights is a concrete process of understanding and interpreting them in practice. Such a process is the integrated one of acting in knowing and knowing in acting. It is also the one of activating abstract principles to be understood, to be interpreted and to be put into practice. The acceptance of the universal principles of human rights can not end the endless debates and disagreements in practice, mainly because the contents of human rights will be different in different contexts and then this will determine the further different understandings, interpretations and practices of human rights. The practice of human rights is not a simple mechanical operation of clicking on the menu, but the wisdom of living. The moral agent not only has to keep the faith and conscience in human rights, but also possesses the moral capacity-being capable of acting in particular situations as well as comprehending and grasping the universal values ​​of human rights in such situations

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